A PACKED Clydebank Trades Union Council meeting in Scotland on Monday night vowed a “community fightback against the cuts” to fight Labour austerity Mark 2.

STUC general secretary Roz Foyer told the meeting in Dumbarton that “something has to give” after 15 years of austerity, which has cost Scottish councils more than 60,000 jobs.

“We need to demand more of our politicians,” she said. “They are letting working people down badly.

“We need to remember that working people, we are the majority, we are the 99 per cent, and when we come together we aremore powerful than can dare to imagine.”

Local activist and GMB Scotland young workers chair Nathan Hennebry took a swipe at Labour’s spring Budget, which proposed spending boosts to arms while cutting social security.

He said: “They’ve taken money out of our pocket to put in the hands of private profiteers, to give it to the arms industry and the warmongers who thrive off war.

“That’s who those in power represent. We need welfare, not warfare.”

The meeting resolved to ramp up pressure on elected members at council and both parliaments to bring austerity to a close.